Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 5:26

26 But ye have born the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun , your images , the star of your God , which ye made to your selves .

The Idolatrous Children of Idolatrous Fathers.

Carried along with you in the Wilderness;

Or little Chappel, or shrine, or Canopy in which the Image of their Idol was placed. Though others conjecture this to be the proper name of an Idol, I conjecture 'tis the name of the Portable Temple or Chappel in which the supposed Deity was placed.

The great Idol of the Ammonites, as Iupiter was of the Greeks and Romans; Some antient King among them, who was a famous Founder, or Raiser, and Benefactour to their Nation, though we know not who this was.

Perhaps if we understand the whole apparatus, or storehouse of their Images, we shall not err. Their grand Idol was Moloch, whose Image they kept, and carried about in a Sacellum, or Consecrated portable Chappel, and with him the rest of their petite Deities, in their Images placed orderly, as they fancied, about their great Deity; others will have Chiun to be Saturn.

What ere these were 'tis plain God accounts them their Inventions, and their Gods.

What Star this was we need not enquire, the Idolaters appropriated the Stars to their Gods, and probably did in the roof of their Gods Tabernacles, frame the Star over the Image of their God, or the Star your God, or which you worship.

All which Deities you have found out and established to your selves.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 span]